The Dan Bongino Show - Here’s The Real Story (Ep 2039)

Episode Date: June 26, 2023

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Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino. So, kind of an interesting weekend this weekend. Joe, how was your weekend, bud? Smooth, baby. Real smooth. How about you? He, Justin, anything exciting? Yeah, nothing happened here yet.

It's boring me. Oh, do I got some updates for you. Just remember, ladies and gents, the Bongino rule applies. Wait 24 to 72 hours before you draw any final conclusions about a story because the first version is typically bullshit. So the Bongino rule even applies when it comes to stories about Bongino. I'll show you what I mean. I'll show you the genesis of how a fake news story works today. Conclusive, but this is it.

I conclusive but this is it conclusive proof the roadmap to how the media creates a story out of a non-story just like that got a big show a lot of going on too we get this Russia coup story which again everybody hold on this one take a big pause process and then we'll generate some output big show show today. Today's show brought to you by Birch Gold. All central banks in countries like China, as central banks in countries like China, India, and Australia begin transitioning to a digital currency. The Federal Reserve has been contemplating the same for the US. That's a bad idea. With a digital currency, the government can track every single purchase. They'll know what you're doing all the time. It'll be the biggest surveillance tool in US history. I've warned you about this, these digital currencies.

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yeah kind of got the skinny here before the show so the bongino rule has never been more important the bongino rule it's not really my rule i kind of say it as a before the show. So the Bongino rule has never been more important. The Bongino rule, it's not really my rule. I kind of say it as a joke, but a lot of responsible media people do this. It's wait, you don't have to be first to a story. You should be right. So generally, if you give us, I'm not telling you to ignore everything.

I'm just telling you process the inputs, give it about 24 to 72 hours before you draw some kind of output conclusion. If it's a story about Donald Trump, I would recommend you extend that to probably longer than 72 hours because there's a damn good chance the story's probably fake.

So that happened to me this weekend. I was out this weekend, went out, it was a friend's birthday. You know, we're having a good time. We went to a restaurant before. It was out with a couple of couples out there. And we're out in Palm Beach. And like I said, it's a friend's birthday.

So we're having a good time. Friend says, by the way, she picked up the bill for her own birthday dinner, which I was upset about. So that'll be relevant in a second. So she's like, hey, listen, afterwards, you know, it was still early. It was only like, I don't know, about 9.30 or so. We're down in a Palm Beach area,

kind of like a foo-foo spot. I don't live in Palm Beach. I live north of there, but whatever. A lot of good restaurants down there. So went out afterwards. We go to this like social club type place. Not very big. I don't know.

Maybe less than 3,000 square feet kind of place. I don't know. It's not that big of a place, but it's kind of one of these like cigar loungy kind of places. We can drink and they play music. The music's kind of a little loud. So maybe a little more clubby than loungy, but you get the point.

Long story short, because I don't want to beat this thing to death. At the end, it's about, I don't know, 11.20, 11.30 or so. I'm sitting there. We've been having a good time for like an hour and a half or so. They ordered a bottle service for my friend

because it's her birthday. So I pick up the tab because she had paid for dinner. It was the right thing to do. Leave the lady a nice tip. Everybody's happy. Actually sent her, gave her some cash afterwards too.

I don't know. I declare it. That's up to them. I don't know. It's not my problem, right? So we're getting ready to leave. Everybody's getting ready to walk out. Again, nothing interesting.

Hold on. I still can't have the bong thing. So we're getting ready to walk out. And I see, I look next to me over my shoulder and I see this ruckus. And I see this guy. He's got this woman in a bear hug dragging her out of this place.

Like in a bear hug. Like, this is like UFC style. And I'm like, what is that about? Now, because I'm kind of looking this way, all I see is a hand, because this is a pretty big dude. And all I see is a hand, then I noticed, gosh, that bracelet looks familiar. That's Paula's bracelet. I'm like, what the? So of course, by the time I process what's going on, because it's not a big place, the guy's already outside and has put Paula down. Thankfully, I thought he was going to slam her on the ground or something the way this

was going down, right? Because this was not nice. This was not like a cutesy time thing. Now, keep in mind, I've been with this woman 20 years, right? We've never, ever been thrown out of a bar. My family used to own a bar. I'm not virtue-seeking, but we leave big tips. We always like to take care of

people. I think anyone who knows me can vouch for that because it's the right thing to do, right? So of course, this thing, I'm screaming at this guy, like, get your hands off my wife. Obviously, right? You're going to defend your woman. But we got to go because I realize this thing's going to, you know, we don't want to, you know how it is when you're, unfortunately, when you got a public name, everything turns into a thing right away. So we get in this bus, me and these few couples, and we take off, right? So we leave. I figured it's only a matter of time before somebody, of course, gets a picture of this. And the next day, someone, a litman or somebody from Playbook reaches out.

So this is the genesis of how fake news works. It applies to this Russia story, too. So the next day, this guy texts me. So I tell him, listen, that's basically not what happened. Like that's a fantastic version of events. Cause he's telling me, I hear you were thrown out. I wasn't thrown out of anywhere. Okay. I just want to be clear on that. Right. So I'm not going to give this guy the story cause he's from bullshit ago or known as Politico and they do nothing but lie. So I said, you can wait. I'll tell the story because he's from bullshit ago or known as politico and they do nothing but lie so i said you can wait i'll tell the story on my show when i got a few minutes on my show and you can hear what actually happened of course he couldn't wait uh litman or whatever his name is i've seen this guy on newsmax kind of a tool i mean really comes off as like kind of a goofball

but at politico sunday morning he was spotted conservative media personality and former fox news host dan bogino getting forcibly removed from Kuchina Palm Beach by several restaurants forcibly removed so of course now the story's set that I was forcibly now keep in mind none of this is actually true but that doesn't stop him from writing a story now this is the text I sent back to him you'll have to tune into my podcast on Monday for the real story, but because they can't wait and the fake news people have to put out a clickbait story, they have to get the narrative out early. You get, you see how this works. You guys all catching it. The story's got to be that I did something that I was forcibly removed for. Now I don't want to beat this thing to death. So Guy, you got to let me wrap this up in a minute or two. But the bottom

line is, did you notice they never tell you why I was forcibly removed? Now, Lipman could have done so. Oh, is it Lipman? Lipman, like lips, whatever. Lipman could have actually done some homework. Someone sent him a picture and asked. But because they want the story out that the conservative guy was forcibly removed, this sets that now they can all report on this so you see how it sprouts like a chia pet here's the so this is just minutes before this happened by the way this is joe out of control this is me and paula justin how out of control are we in this this is we are just violently out of control violently that's a video i took on my phone of me and paula this is just probably i don't know 20 minutes before this happened like a freaking maniac probably, I don't know, 20 minutes before this happened. Like a freaking maniac.

I know. I don't know how, clearly. I mean, just totally foaming at the mouth, wetting myself. That's just, definitely get him out.

So we're still trying to figure out like, what the hell happened? Bottom line is, Paula was on the line for a bathroom, to go to the bathroom. The guy's like,

she's on the wrong line or whatever. It just a total miscommunication and the guy decides to bear hug my wife and drag her out so lefties think this is hilarious here's media item of course dan bogino was reported you see reportedly you see how it works get the story out lipman yeah without doing any homework on this at all or waiting. Get the story out first. And then everybody else gets to report it. If this was Hunter Biden getting dragged out, they'd be like, heroic Hunter Biden, chivalrous King Arthur Hunter, defends woman from attack.

Not me. With me, I was forcibly removed. None of this actually, and I love this media from a Miami bottle service club. All media had to do was put in a search engine. Kuchina. It's not in Miami. It's in Palm Beach.

All you had to do was. Same shit. Different day. Bro, that's all you had to do. Wait, you got the raw story one. But so raw story, which is a hack site. Raw story's got to jump on it too Dan Bongino caught being thrown out of a Palm Beach restaurant

At least they got the location right Sarah Burns Folks It's not what happened It's not what happened at all I was not thrown out And I'm really praying that some video of this surfaces in the next few days There'll be a lot of deleted tweets, I'm sure, afterwards.

I've got to take some actions afterwards, of course. But if you saw what really happened, I think you'd be stunned. But that's the media story. You see how they can't wait? That's why the Bongino rule applies, even about Bongino. Could have waited. Could have waited to hear the story before you actually report on it. But they don't want to wait.

Because I'm a conservative, the story automatically is that somehow I was thrown out of a Miami board. None of that is actually true. None of it. And if someone's got video of that, I strongly encourage you to put it out there. And I think you'll see a totally different story. I shouldn't say that they won't delete tweets. They don't even care. They think it's funny that a woman was attacked. They think it's hilarious. I doubt anything will happen. Liberals love it. They think it's the greatest thing ever. So, all right, enough of that. But I figured I'd get that out. That's quite a weekend

update for the radio show, by the way. They do the weekend update on Monday, but that's what happened. Now, onto another big story that happened this weekend, which I can't, in strong enough terms, folks, say, please, everybody kind of hold on this. This Russian coup story makes absolutely no sense. It's another example of how if you were following Twitter, where everybody's got to be first, you had all these, you know, it didn't matter if you were pro-Russia or pro-Ukraine, by the way. Every side was itching to propagandize the story before anyone could even figure out what happened. Russia has this kind of proxy army called the Wagner Group run by this guy, Progozin. They're a bunch of mercs. They're mercenaries is what they are.

They've been very successful in Africa and elsewhere. They're very rich. They get a lot of money from what they do. They're supported by a lot of Russian insiders. And the story this weekend was, oh my God, there is a coup. There's a coup in Russia. And then all of a sudden we found that it wasn't a coup, that they stopped the coup and it was a magic deal.

And all of a sudden we found that it wasn't a coup, that they stopped the coup and it was a magic deal. And all of a sudden the guy disappeared and everybody's around a campfire roasting marshmallows while Progozhin from Wagner, as he stopped the coup headed towards Moscow, is in Belarus and everything's hunky dory. And I'm thinking if you would have just waited again a few minutes before reporting about the coup, you would have realized that there were probably a lot more questions about what happened here. Now, I have gone through this morning, filtered through everything I could on the internet. I think I made it from the start and the end,

the alpha and the omega of the internet. I'm trying to find one clip where someone sums up exactly why we should be careful about the story here. This one's the best one I've seen. It's from a Major General Rupert Jones from the UK military. But this guy, he's like, everybody hold. It's probably not the end of Putin. And this guy may have bit off more than he could chew progosion.

This is about a minute. But I think best explains why everyone should hold, not from processing information, but from drawing any outputs. Because propagandists on both sides are taking advantage of this. The Russians are pro-right. Like, look, look how strong Putin is. He defeated the Merks. And then the pro-Ukraine side is like, look how weak Putin is. A couple of Merks almost put him out of business.

Listen to this guy. He's got the story straight. Viewing this as being good news, you know, Putin weakened. That's a good thing. But careful what you wish for in place of Putin. I wouldn't share Tobias Elwood's absolute certainty about cause and effect here. Of course, Putin is weakened, but he's a great survivor. So, you know, I think, yes, there'll be jostling going on, but I don't think there's any certainty this kind of is the start of the end for Putin.

So what is your prediction for the main protagonists, Prykosian, and the defence minister, what's happening in Belarus with Lukashenko, President Zelensky as well, of course? Yeah, I mean, it's hard. This idea, this sort of full-on mutiny by Prokosian doesn't wholly add up. He was losing influence. His Wagner group were being subsumed into the minister of defense he didn't like that it felt more like a kind of a a cry to retain his autonomy we know he's been very frustrated but back you've discussed it he wasn't in the ammunition he needed it felt more so he was trying to make a point and that that kind of back you know blew back in his face to some degree. And for me, that probably explains why he's advancing on Moscow. And then suddenly he stands down.

I suspect he bit off more than he could chew. Yes, I suspect that too. Folks, listen to me. I want to show you this CNN article. Once you learn to read through and break the bullshit fog, all of a sudden you start to realize that the fake news, as I showed you in the beginning, and the simple story about me, this is a more complex story, manipulates the public through propaganda. There is nothing more the pro-Ukraine side wants you to believe than that this war is on the cusp of winning, Joe.

And if we just gave them a couple more billion and maybe a tactical nuke, it'd be over. But they're not the only ones. The Russians, believe me, the Russians, they've got their own mutts in this too. Propagandizing people too, going, oh my gosh, look at this. Putin's so strong. He put down Wagner. He put the Wagner group down. He's fighting Nazis in Ukraine. There's propaganda on both sides. There is a story. Absolutely. There is a story in the middle. That is, of course, the Soviet National. That's what the big tech does, pops every single time. There's nothing more they want than to propagandize both sides. Look at a CNN story. U.S. officials saw signs

the Wagner Group's prognosis was planning a challenge to the Russian military but was surprised by the rapid escalation. Oh. That's odd. So we knew about this? So you always have to ask yourself, like,

who benefits, right? Who benefits by all this? Who benefits? Has there been any kind of back channel here? I mean, I see two possible scenarios, because I accept nothing from the media on first pass, nor should you. There's only two scenarios.

Number one, that not only did the U.S. know about Prokofiev's soon-to-be rebellion, but the Russians knew too. Never going to make it that far because he probably had some double agents telling him, and if this gets a little weird, stop me, folks, in the chat. He probably had some double agents embedded in his movement going, yes, do it. We can take Moscow. Winky, winky, nod, nod. And the minute they get halfway there, all of a sudden they turn. Everybody bails and he's looking around.

Pogosian and his team, you follow me, folks? Charge. And who's with him? Nobody. It was probably a setup. That's the most likely scenario. Who knew? I don't know, but it seems kind of weird. The second one I see is possible too, the Sky News guy, is that he was legitimately caught off guard, is that he was legitimately caught off guard, that the Wagner people got cold feet halfway through and decided to bail.

What makes me believe the first scenario is more likely is that they let Prokofiev escape. He doesn't want to martyr this guy, at least now, Putin. They let him escape to Belarus, where I guess he's supposed to live happily ever after in peace, which if you think that I sense a radioactive little needle coming at some point soon for this guy, there's no chance they let this guy live.

They're just not going to do anything now. They wouldn't have let the guy escape. If it was the second scenario where he was caught off guard and achieved some tactical domination and stopped them short of Moscow, I'm absolutely certain they would have wiped these guys out and not integrated them into the army. You get what I'm saying? The Wagner group people were later when Progozhin left to go to Belarus, were integrated into the regular Russian army. You're going to take a bunch of saboteurs and put them in the middle of your ranks? What, to do it again? Or was it a wiki wiki nod nod with a bunch of double agents the whole

time setting pregogin up do not accept anything at first pass folks these people lie for a living that's all they do they all have an agenda everyone has an agenda by the way i'm not kidding about the bongino rule and gatekeepers even Ice Cube. You know, I'm not, I got to be honest, I'm not a huge fan. But like I told you before, if I find something useful and someone out there who says something about gatekeepers and the media, I'm going to put it on the show. And something interesting happened. Ice Cube, like the rapper. Yeah, yeah.

You can see this is interesting. A lot of talk about 100 Biden story blowing up. Something else happened. They got a phone now. We didn. You can see this this week. It's interesting. A lot of talk about 100 Biden story blowing up. Something else happened. They got a phone now? We didn't even hear about half this stuff. Folks, helixsleep.com slash Dan. A great day begins with a great night's sleep. You're missing out if you're not sleeping on a Helix mattress.

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That's real. You can call it what you want. Military industrial symbiosis. I don't care what you call it. I'm not into the euphemisms game, but this stuff is real. People are rational maximizers. They maximize their own power and financial position. If the New York Times can make money by lying, they'll do it. If people in DC can make money by lying and starting a nuclear war, they'll do it. If they can cover for politicians that'll give them access, therefore giving them clicks, giving them money, they'll do it. These gatekeepers are everywhere. And when you get involved in this business, like I've been involved, where I was on cable TV, radio, and digital all at the same time,

performing in each one of those spaces, by the way, all the time, 50, 60 hours a week. There are a lot of gatekeepers out there everywhere. Big tech is the big one. I bring that up because again, when you're in this business, these people want to shut you down. And a lot of the information you think you're getting, whether it's about me, whether me whether it's about ice cube whether he i'm sure he doesn't want to be associated with i don't even care whether it's about russia whatever it may be a lot of it is fake so ice cube runs this big three basketball league kind of thing and he's finding out now what it's like to try to go to war with big corporations and other people in America who have a vested interest in shutting you down. So we put out this video this week. There's a lot of truth in this.

Check this out. Well, what I'm going to do is go on a. Fuck the gatekeepers podcast tour and I'm going to talk to everybody, everybody, you know, and get a chance to get my message out to the people, be able to let people hear from me, you know, and, and, you know, you might agree, you might not. But the important thing is, you know, for me to go on these platforms, say what I feel about what I think. And, you know, some people may get pissed off because I'm going to talk to everybody. I'm not playing. Well, we're not playing either because I'm going to talk to everybody. I'm not playing. Well, we're not playing either. I'm an open invitation.

We have the second biggest conservative show and I don't know, a top five radio show. I don't know what the numbers are on that, but it's a lot of stations. You're welcome on the show if you want. Love to hear what you have to say about it. Folks, a lot of people are getting tired of the gatekeepers, man. They see the country in a lot of trouble right now, culturally in a cesspool, financially in a debt crisis. They see the education system collapsing.

They see faith and love for America disappearing. We used to have a set of at least semi-cohesive values as a country. That all seems to be disappearing. And anytime people talk, they get shut down by gatekeepers everywhere. We've had about enough of that. Did you see what happened this weekend at the Minneapolis Pride Festival? Again, we have our American flag up for my pride month, which is in America. We'll stay up for the whole month because I love my country.

But this was at a Minneapolis Pride Festival. And I want to tell you, I want to ask you a question more than tell you anything in what possible universe, right? Oh, can you draw that up first? First, this is from the post-millennial.

They had this story by Katie Davis court, hat tip, her TPM breaking fully naked adults, riding bikes, expose their genitals to children at the Seattle pride. Oh, there's a photo. If you'd like to see it,

that was a cry. You go a to see it. I thought that was a crime. There you go, a little. I thought so, too. Joe exposing your thingies to little kids. Yeah, Wahoo, Ding-a-ling-a-wing-a, sing-a-thing-a-wing, you know. It's got a lot of names. Kind of strange. I thought that was a criminal act, too.

I guess not. And this is what happened at a Minneapolis Pride Festival. This gentleman decided it'd be a good idea to put on a pair of tighty-whities and nothing more and do a little twerking act in front of kids. This surely must be the end of civilization right here. Check this out. Check this out. Now, I'm not really sure what's more troubling here.

Guy who thought this was appropriate or the parents who are watching their kids watch this whole routine. Who brings their kids to that? The answer is, ladies and gentlemen, not a small number of people. It's not. It's actually a small number of people. It's not. It's actually a large number of people who now believe this is okay. You see why people are starting to speak out now? Starting to bypass the gatekeepers, starting to establish parallel economies, getting away from the nuts who believe this is the future of America.

Can you imagine what's going on? You got open questions right now in russia not to dial back but who's controlling the nukes in russia is putin's is his power really been compromised is wagner what are they going to do for money what's going to happen to the mercs was there a coup or not in russia we're trying to flesh this out with the world's largest nuclear power right we're trying to flesh this out. And this is what they're watching us do. Naked guys on bicycles, flaunting their genitalia in Seattle while an older gentleman there in tighty-whitey starts twerking in front of a bunch of kids. By the way, openly, nobody's even remotely embarrassed about this, folks. Not even a little bit. Someone brought up an

interesting, it appears there's like a number of cameras filming this. Nobody's like, hey, put your cameras array. We don't want anyone to see this. This is the libs of TikTok phenomenon. Libs of TikTok, where libs of TikTok will just pull video of what liberals do, like what just happened, what you just saw. And then liberals will want to pull down because we take their stuff that they post publicly and put it on our accounts. All right. I got a big block ahead, folks, an election 2024 update, but it's an important one because it involves the media more than involves specific candidates. There is a shift beginning to happen right now. And I think I know why. The media is starting to turn on Biden. It's

not because they're interested in journalism. I think I opened the show today demonstrating to you these people don't give a damn about journalism. They're clickbait people. It's all they care about. There's evidence out there and the media is worried that they don't understand the whole story. They're terrified that they don't understand the whole story because new things are coming out every day. I'm going to show you what I mean in a second with CNN and Chuck Todd, how the switch has begun. And you can expect, expect, I'm saying there's probably a 50-50 shot now that Joe Biden does not go through with this. The money's not coming in. The media knows he's in trouble. There was a 50-50 shot. This guy could be in real trouble and may give one of those speeches.

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cover for, the massive Hunter Biden, Biden Inc. bribery scandal, what they assume they could run cover for was based on a specific data set. The data set is now getting bigger as more information comes out there. Here's what I mean. Why the hell would this week all of a sudden CNN decide to run this report where they start to cover an IRS whistleblower indicating that the justice department tried to make the Biden investigation go away. The only reason is not because of journalism. It's because they smell blood in the water and they think there's more blood to come and they're worried. Take a look. Some of the messages that were released that were made public or the allegations of certain messages

undoubtedly draw your eye and make you ask questions if you're not inside the investigation. What are these messages? And do you think that what the agents wanted, that there would be further investigation is possible now? Yeah, I think that's the second, that's the major part of what their complaints are. Again, these are two agents who were very seasoned and they've been following this investigation very closely for years. And they say they were not allowed to investigate very thoroughly some parts of the evidence that they say pointed fingers at the sitting president, Joe Biden. And here's what Shapley said in this. There's a 2017 message that is purported to come from Hunter Biden to a Chinese partner that he's trying to get to pay him. And so this is what it says.

It says, I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment has not been fulfilled. He says he goes on to say that essentially he holds he will hold a grudge against whoever is not paying. And then he ends it by saying, I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father. There are two, follow me here, two reasons that the media is doing this and none of them involve journalism. I just told you the first one. As new stuff comes out, I'm sure they don't know about it.

Oh, Dan, they leak everything to the left, not the bad stuff. This talk of a new phone that they found and one of Joe Biden's phones. I'll get to that in a second. The media is probably thinking right now, oh, listen, this happened with me. Folks, I'm going to be honest with you. I'll tell you the story. When it first came out about this Trump-Russia collusion thing, and before Mark Levin broke the story about the Pfizer thing, there was a side of me that held back. I followed the Bongino rule, thinking, gosh, is that true?

The president is a spy? Seems so strange. I told you, like, I almost didn't believe it right away. The media is doing the same thing now. They're like, oh my gosh, this is uglier than we thought. Here's the second reason, the deuce. The second reason is Biden is a moron. He has no self-control at all.

He is a typical out-of-touch puffer, a guy who needs to tell you how great he is all the time. So instead of doing what any sane person would do, tell me if I'm nuts, guys. Telling his, you know, formerly crack addicted son involved in this now guilty plea for tax evasion. Hey, bro, maybe dial it down for a few weeks

and stay on the kind of Q, right, Joe? Sit on the QT. What happens? Joe's laughing because he cut this. Here's C-SPAN. Here's Hunter Biden at the wedding. Is this a VO or I got to talk on this? You can VO. It's OK. Here's Hunter Biden. That's voiceover. It's like industry. They'll get wrong like insiders.

With every single C-SPAN camera catching his every move, giving the big double-barreled F.U. Aruski to all of America. And the media's even like, dude, are you kidding? What a moron. Here, check this out. Distinguished guests, please make your way to your seats. Dinner will begin shortly. Thank you.

Folks, I know what you're thinking. You're probably thinking, oh, no, the media loves this in-your-face stuff. They do. They do. Until they don't. Until it doesn't work. It's not working for them anymore. Oh, come on, Dan. You're just making it up.

Am I? Here is the biggest left-wing political activist in the, well, second, but Joy Reid's definitely number one. Chuck Todd, probably the second. This guy is a dyed-in-the-wool liberal, through and through. Here's even Chuck Todd asking the question like, hey, you think that was a good idea, having this guy at the state dinner as he pleads guilty to a tax fraud charge in a business, which now, at least we know, involved his dad? Take a listen. Do you think it was appropriate for Hunter Biden to be at the same event as the Attorney General Merrick Garland was in the same week he accepted a plea deal? I think as the president explains,

that's his son, that's a separate thing. And I would like to say about that, that decision was made by an independent prosecutor who is a Trump appointed US attorney who had 10 years of experience, well respected. Philadelphia Inquirer reported that he was a registered Republican. He looked at the facts and evidence and made that decision. And by the way, if that's what the Republicans want to run on in the coming election, good luck. Yeah, yeah, Good luck is right. They will have good luck. Let me tell you something.

Nobody likes to get it stuck in their face like this, especially American citizens. You know what? I can't speak for everyone because I haven't interviewed 330 million Americans, obviously. But you got to have a hard time convincing me, guys, that the voting public, knowing the president's kid at a minimum just pled guilty to a number of tax charges while biden's arguing to raise taxes on them while his son's not paying taxes right just as according to all reports going to plead guilty to it and then you invite him to the state dinner where he's mixing and mingling at a party with the same

attorney general who we know now according to, probably interfered in this case to shut it down. I'll show you what I mean with that in a second. You're telling me everyone's going to love that. You're a moron if you believe that. I'm sorry. Klobuchar's just kidding herself at this point. Folks, they're preparing to throw this guy under the bus. I'm telling you,

relaxium lady style. By the way, she called in my radio show Friday, Joe was the most awesome thing. Her name is Rachel, the actual relaxium. I'm telling you, she was the nicest lady too. Dude, we got to get that cut. That was the greatest thing. She called in my radio. It's a real relaxium lady. It was so cool. But I'm telling you, so is relaxium lady style. What did you get? She did say it all. She said, I'm telling you, so is Relaxium, ladies. What? Did you get? She did say it all. She said, I'm telling you. It was awesome. This is how I know. It's not just the CNN people getting ready to throw him under the bus for this brazenness.

It's Chuck Todd, too. Here's Chuck Todd reporting on Biden's abysmal poll numbers. You think this is because Chuck Todd's doing journalism? They need to get this guy out of the race fast. Gavin Newsom, bring in the righty. Get a book. Call him in. Enter Sandman.

If you're a Mariano Rivera guy, bring him in. Here, take a look. Biden's job rating sits at just 43%. It's about where it's been since the withdrawal from Afghanistan. 53% disapprove. A full 68% of voters, including 43% of Democrats now, which is twice what it was in 2020, say they are concerned that Biden does not have the necessary mental and physical health to be president.

You think Chuck Todd is doing this because of journalism or whatever? Listen to me. Listen, please. I'm begging you to take this mental note and tattoo it on your cerebral cortex. This guy is politically dead in the water. Everyone knows it. Once a couple of major senators from big states come out and say it, you are going to get a speech from this guy, probably from the Oval or somewhere else,

saying he's not running for president or whatever it is, that his wife advised him against it. They'll invent some fantasy reason. You're watching the beginning and the end of this guy. I mean, could he go through it? Here's the problem. I want to leave both possibilities open because predictions are tough in this game.

Joe Biden is so dumb, he may convince himself he can still pull it off, but sooner or later, the money's going to dry up. This guy is in real trouble because here's what I'm talking about, folks. It's now clearly obvious they are going to try to interfere in another election. And Biden is at the heart of this whole thing. Biden is counting on election interference in 2024. Look at this article in the New York Post. This is a doozy, by the way. Michael Goodwin. This is a great piece. It's in my newsletter, bongino.com slash newsletter. I apologize if you've been missing a newsletter. We transferred over to a different system. So just go check your spam box. Maybe

something happened there and just make us like an authorized user. So Bongino.com slash newsletter. Excuse me. Read this piece. Donald Trump's 2020 election loss was an inside job. Yeah, finally. He goes through all of the stuff that led to the 2020 election getting fleeced. But here's the kicker here. He notes the interference with the Hunter Biden probe

began as soon as it looked like Joe Biden was going to win the Democrats nomination. Oh, that's convenient timing. That's the allegation made by a supervisory special agent, Gary Shapley, who detailed steps and he, as he and other IRS agents wanted to take to gather evidence against Hunter for this massive tax fraud and other crimes. They wanted to execute search warrants in New York, California, Arkansas, and Washington, D.C. Now, folks, this is why I get it. If you're in the chat, I love you. Thank you for being here with 60,000 others. But some of you, oh, why are we talking about it? This is why I'm a tactical political guy first. I'm an activist before anything else, anything else in this business.

Ed Rollins notes that the political class, including the media, whether you think what, regardless of what you think about Ed Rollins, he's absolutely right here. You assume folks, everybody knows these stories and you assume every voter's a news junkie. They're not. Why are we talking about this? Because Rollins cautions it can take two weeks for even the biggest of news to get the full attention of most people. That means Comer and people like us have to keep putting out key witnesses under oath and keep talking about this. You are, and I mean this as a compliment, but I mean it because it's true. You out there listening to this show and conservative media,

you are very smart. I'm not saying that to kiss your ass because you're here. I'm saying it because it's true. I read your comments. I read your emails. You follow this show every day. You are at the tip of the spear of people informed about current events. Folks, there's a reason the tip of the spear of people informed about current events. Folks, there's a reason the tip of the spear is small. That's why it's the tip. Because not everybody else is. It's not their fault. People have other jobs. They're running bowling alleys. They're electricians. They're pilots. They have time to read the news like we do. Some of us aren't even that interested. You got to hammer this stuff. These guys are in real trouble. If we can't make them legally responsible because Garland's not going to do a damn thing about the Biden crime family, then we can make them politically responsible.

Here's Jim Comer. There's more money out there. Folks, what are we up to now? 30, 40 million. These aren't small bribes. Here's Comer saying there's even more money out there. And it explains what I told you earlier by the dipsy do flip a ruski from the media. Every week they're getting bombarded with a new piece of information. And they're like,

folks, sooner or later, we're going to have to cut bait on this. Here, take a listen. If it is over for them, the DOJ, is it over for you, Chairman Comer? No, absolutely not. Let me assure the American people. We have bank records that came in this week that we're going through that we think are going to show more wires from more countries. Remember, we've just disclosed two countries thus far. We've just disclosed China and Romania. There are still some more Chinese wires that we have yet to present to the American people.

And there are a lot of wires, mysterious wires from Ukraine and Russia that we're about to expose. So this is just beginning for the Bidens. All the Department of Justice is doing is standing in our way. But even with all the obstacles that Merrick Garland has thrown in front of the House Oversight Committee, all the obstacles that the Treasury Cabinet has thrown in the FBI has thrown with all the negative media coverage from the mainstream media. We are still producing results every day that shows this family, the president of the United States family, has received millions and millions of dollars from our adversaries all over the world. And they can't explain why. Merrick Garland, thank you for the reminder in the chat,

and Lisa Monaco, the one and two with the Justice Department. They are not going to make them legally pay for this. What Comer's saying here is unbelievable. There's even more money out there from China. What other countries paid off Biden? Now, folks, here's where the story gets totally, this is like crazy pills, bananas alert. This is where the story gets totally This is like crazy pills, bananas alert This is where the story gets even crazier

So a memo has surfaced now The Federalist is reporting on it Paul Sperry's reporting on it It's an October 7, 2022 meeting There's a memo about it At the U.S. Attorney's Office in Delaware It's from Paul Sperry He's at paulsperry underscore

U.S. Attorney David Weiss Who allegedly, Joe Was given full custody of the Hunter case, right? Right delaware's from paul sperry he's at paul sperry underscore u.s attorney david weiss who allegedly joe was given full custody of the hunter case right all right u.s attorney david weiss at this meeting in 2022 apparently told six witnesses not one six that he did not have authority to charge hunter biden and other districts including d D.C. and L.A., and had requested special counsel status from A.G. Garland. OK, OK. Hold on, Joe.

You have the whistle here. It's the red. Hold on, ladies and gentlemen. This is a serious penalty right here because both of these things cannot be true. Because both of these things cannot be true. Holding, chronic stupidity and lying, 15 yards, technical foul, roughing the passer, 25 yards, on-field obstruction of justice, 72 yards. We're actually back in the stands now. Yeah.

Here's Garland's own words. We always bring receipts. So David Wise, the guy, you understand what they're doing? They're paying past the hot potato here. Garland's saying, oh, Hunter Biden didn't get a sweetheart deal from me. I gave it to David Weiss to handle. David Weiss is saying, I didn't get a sweetheart deal from me. I didn't have the authority to charge him in other districts.

They're both passing it back. Here's Garland's own words when asked by a reporter. Hey man, did you get involved in this? Because Weiss is saying you did. I thus requested special counsel status from Garland. Here's Garland. No, no, I didn't do nothing. I didn't do those other kids. Here's Garland with the Beavis and Butthead approach. Check this out. You assured Congress some time ago that the Hunter Biden investigation be conducted without any kind of political interference. And I wonder if you would believe that that is still the case, if that is still the case, that the investigation is not being interfered in any political way since an agent from Mr. Lee's agency has now come forward claiming whistleblower status and alleging that there has been some kind

of interference yes it's still the case i stand by my testimony and i refer you to the u.s attorney for the district of delaware who is in charge of this case and capable of making any decisions that he feels are appropriate dude he said it right yeah the guy is such a lightweight he's such a sniveler too do you can't that? Yeah, I did catch that. He sounds like a little rodent every single time. Like, be bold. Put a little more baritone in you. Get some Barry White in there and just try to sound authoritative.

Now, the guy's obviously lying. There's a memo out there saying that's not true. That this guy, Weiss, apparently was looking for special counsel authority to charge in other districts, and apparently Garland nixed it while saying he didn't nix it. They're bullshitting you.

It's obvious. There's a memo out there. Now do you see why the media is turning? Here's why. I got to get to a couple more things. Here's another nugget. I got two cuts from this Maria Bartiromo interview. Here's where the story gets even crazier. Fantastic peter switzer's delivered some great books on the

biden crime family here he is with maria bartiromo this weekend saying there's a phone out there now they've got some kind of like world phone biden was using to cut some shady deals or something what else is out there take a look peter you broke a lot of this years ago about the biden family influence peddling and you've got new information this morning uh breaking news on a cell phone that joe biden was using tell us about that uh yeah i mean it's interesting what is the line of communications between hunter biden and his business partners and joe biden when he's vice president of the united states it's's not the government phone. It's not Joe Biden's personal phone. We know from the laptop that Hunter Biden's business paid for a private phone line that Joe Biden used while he

was vice president. It was from AT&T. It was $300 a month. It was a global phone where you could access somebody anywhere around the world. We shared that phone number and that account information with people at the House Oversight Committee. My hope is that they haven't already. They will subpoena those records because I think it will give an indication on how tight the communication was. and that may be the phone for example that the ukrainian the burisma executive might have used uh in this allegation uh that he talked to joe biden and recorded conversations now they've got a phone you know we used to call this in the secret service muds and luds pulling people's numbers that they dialed and who they called now they've got a phone folks what else is out there

you think the media is not thinking the same thing? Here's the second part. It's only about a minute. But this story actually gets even worse. Here, take a look. Henry Zhao in 2015 had already sent $5 million to the Bidens. He was the head of a harvest investment firm. And what's interesting is in the correspondence there, Hunter Biden again talked to Zhao in the context of this is a deal that's important to my family involving his father. Let's also keep in mind we fixate on the criminal element of this. We also have to focus on the espionage element of this. Henry Zhao paid $5 million to Hunter Biden from an account that was part of a company that he co-owned with the family of the Minister of State Security of China, who's in charge of the entire spy apparatus. And you see that in every deal that Hunter Biden did in China, these individuals that are sending him money have ties

to Chinese intelligence. Listen, listen, I swear to you on my life, a collective sigh just went out in the studio here. Everybody's like, what? He's on the phone talking to Henry Zhao, who's got some bank account with some ministry of security services in China. And they're talking about, can this story get any worse? The answer is yes, it can. I played for you the tapes. What more evidence do you need? The answer is the media is starting to pick this up because they realize there's more

evidence out there. All right. One last story for the day. Geek, go to the Patriot rally versus the Patriot front. You know the Patriot front? Yeah. These dipwad losers that show up in khakis covering their faces like pseudo ninjas or something like that. They're pretending to be patriots. Somebody knows who these idiots are. Every time they show up, everybody tries to throw them out, and they just keep showing up.

But it's weird. You know, you put a meme on the internet, CNN shows up at your house with 76 reporters and the FBI. They'll find you in a minute. But nobody seems even remotely concerned about who the patriot front, these alleged white supremacists are. It's so weird. They show up in masks, and nobody seems to care.

I mean, I thought, I thought ideas, I thought Antifa was an idea, right? And ideas aren't dangerous. Well, I thought you told us the white supremacy idea was the most dangerous thing around. So why aren't we trying to find out who the Patriot Front is? So there was a Patriot rally this weekend and the Patriot Front decided to show up and they thought they were going to join actual Patriots. Yeah, that didn't work out too well for the Patriot front. And if you'll notice, they got their masks pulled off. And I want you to watch how quickly the guy who gets his mask pulled off plunges his hands in front of his face because he doesn't want to be seen on camera. Strange, right? You think you'd be proud of your bizarre work if you were a deranged white supremacist, right? Not running from the cameras like it's some kind of an act and you don't want to be exposed as being an actor in some real life docudrama.

Take a look. Get the fuck out. the fuck out Say D-Mask! D-Mask! D-Mask! D-Mask! D-Mask! D-Mask!

D-Mask! D-Mask! D-Mask! Take the mask off! D-Mask! D-Mask! D-Mask! You fucking racist piece of shit!

Come on, get out of here! Get the fuck out of here! Okay, guys, let's let's go back now it's so strange how you're not seeing this all over the media right weird racist white supremacist confronted by actual americans exposed exposed but you haven't heard anything about it you haven't seen the fbi and merrick garland do a big press conference or anything like that? So strange, right? See, the media finds itself in a bad spot right now on social media. If you followed this this weekend, they don't know what to do. Do they condemn the Patriot rally guys for going after the Patriot front,

who they said are white supremacists? Or do you go on the record defending a bunch of people you swore were white supremacists who you don't want to identify? They're like, we don't know what to do. It's like two red buttons. I'm glad we're closing the show like we opened it. Bongino rule. Give it 24

to 72 hours. Take it all in before you draw a final conclusion on anything. And if it involves Trump, sometimes up to a hours. Take it all in before you draw a final conclusion on anything. And if it involves Trump, sometimes up to a week, because you're probably being lied to about a lot of things. In my case, even my own life. That's all right. I'm used to it. It's part of the business. Hey folks, thanks for tuning in. Is that a new record for us? 67,800. It's close. 67,800 on a Monday in summer. You guys are awesome. I love having you here. Thank you so much for joining us. We're here every day, 11 a.m. I go live rumble.com slash Bongino, set up an account, download the Rumble app.

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